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Summer's heat, as well as its garden-fresh produce, cry out for cool summer salads.
And that's a good thing, says Teresa Hunsaker, a home economist with Utah State University's Extension Services. Fruit-or-veggie- packed salads can boost your intake of fiber, vitamins, minerals, antioxidants and other nutrients that are linked to reducing health risks such as high blood pressure, type 2 diabetes and cancer.See the full content of this document
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It's a Toss Up
"Unfortunately, the average daily consumption for men and women is fewer than four servings," said Hunsaker, who recently taught a "Cool Summer Salads" class in the Extension's Weber County office.
If you haven't broken out of the iceberg lettuce rut yet, take your cues from restaurants, where the small dinner salad of the '60s evolved to the salad-bar wars of the '70s and '80s. Today's trendy mesclun greens, also called "spring mix," usually includes a variety of mild and bitter flavors, such as romaine, baby spinach, radicchio, red oak leaf, red leaf, lollo rossa, ...See the full content of this document
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